On Thursday, Washington announced that he appointed veteran diplomacy in Russia and worked mainly in the former Soviet Union, a list of his embassy in Kyiv, which would make him the highest representative of the United States in Ukraine in the absence of an ambassador.
The US State Department stated in his statement that Jolly Davis, an ambassador in Cyprus, would continue to fulfill this role in addition to his new mission in Ukraine.
The US Ambassador to Ukraine Briding Brent resigned last month after he spent three years in Kyiv.
The former president of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, appointed Brink’s ambassador in Kyiv in 2022, shortly after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Trump administration has not yet appointed its ambassador to Kyiv.
Davis’s appointment occurred the day after signing the agreement in Washington between the United States and Ukraine on Ukrainian minerals.
